Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dismissing Steven Mosher [March 14], Stanford University's anthropology department may be trying to protect future research projects in China. But what is the value of a whitewashed view of life there? Our scholars should prefer doing no research to being used as propagandists for the host country. If Stanford valued truth and ethical pursuits, it would reward Mosher, not punish...
...expulsion of Steven Mosher from Stanford points up the growing division between academics and their ethics. With the Mosher case in mind, a professor can now say to a student: Go off and do independent research, but if you happen to see something that is wrong, remember that your field is not "values" or "justice." Above all, keep in mind that the area must be kept open for future independent researchers. Because of Mosher, anthropology may suffer a great loss in China. Because of Stanford's reaction, one wonders if anthropology as a discipline of study has not suffered...
...Steven Mosher may not be regarded by the educational community as blameless, but perhaps humanity outweighs academic etiquette. We hardly have a free scholarly environment when a man of Mosher's integrity and compassion must bury his knowledge in obscure periodicals for fear of unleashing public outrage...
...Steven M. Kaplan Oak Park, Mich...
...committee also informally debated adding a math requirement to the Core Curriculum. Steven Rapkin '83 an Undergraduate Council representative on the Committee said the academic committee of the Council has discussed recommending that the Core require math, logic, and computer scrence...